Idols Around the World 995

Chapter 995 – #99. Three Thousand Concubines and Emperor Gaiden (53)

‘I must have really hated it.’

It’s an experience that other people don’t want to do…
Can you tour various travel destinations while feeling a vivid sense of reality through dreams?

‘Maybe it will be a jackpot if it’s a business.’

In the world I live in, there are people who skydive, there are people who do underwater diving, and there are many people who experience thrills using amusement park equipment.
There are people who climb Mount Everest, which is difficult for people to live in, and there are people who ride down the dangerous mountain roads on mountain bikes, and there are people who rely on a single car to go around the track at breakneck speed.
However, a priest is a person who manifests his abilities at an early age and has grown up well and cherished in the temple.
When was the last time you had such a stimulating experience?

‘I think the difference is bigger than I thought. I didn’t expect you to be this scared.’

Perhaps, if we were modern people, we would not have felt the urge to go on a trip today, saying that I had a terrible dream.
However, the priest seemed to think that what I showed through my dream was bullying.

‘It must have been unintentionally tortured.’

This makes things a bit difficult.
It left a bad impression on the priest who had to cooperate.
In fact, there was no great hidden reason for showing those things to the priest.
It was to show the greatness of nature and then let me feel the emotions I received there.
Can’t it be easy to make a sane person feel awe when I’m not really a god?
I wanted to take away a little of the awe you would have felt while watching the natural landscape.

‘Is it only fear that I brought?’

I was worried about what that priest was thinking.
If you had a backlash caused by fear, you would never cooperate with me.
Contrary to my worries, however, the priest seemed willing to cooperate.

“What exactly am I supposed to do? The word miscarriage gives me no idea what to do.”
“Are you willing to cooperate with me?”
“What can I do? How can I, a mere midday creature, refuse? I have only one person to cling to, but he won’t protect me. So shouldn’t I also find a way to live?”

The place to cling to is probably talking about the old god who abandoned this world and went away.
It didn’t bother to tell me that the god had already left for a long time.
He’s a person I’ll continue to use from now on, but changing my mentality wasn’t a good thing.
Sometimes hiding the truth is better than revealing it.

“I didn’t know you would obey me so obediently.”
“Please use it and save your life.”

Well, it’s strange to expect faithfulness from those who cling to the departed god.

“Yes, I don’t know how long I can remember, but I know what you mean.”
“Yes?”
“It’s time to wake up from the dream.”

Pair!!!

“Huh!”

Waking up from her dream, she habitually wiped away the cold sweat that dripped down her face.

“…What?”

Her breath sank quickly, but it didn’t feel too good.
I think I dreamed something, but I can’t remember.
I vaguely remember having a conversation with someone, but I can’t remember who or what kind of conversation I was talking to.

“I thought I shouldn’t forget…”

Her mood of forgetting her important things upset her all day.

‘Did you not have a dream?’

The amazing thing about her is that since that day she no longer has her dreams that trouble her.
It was right that we should not forget the conversation we had with someone.
Unable to hide his uneasy feeling, he struggled to remember the content of her dream.
Of course, it had no effect whatsoever.

“Wait a minute! Everyone gather around. Shhhhh! Be quiet and come on.”
“Is there a problem?”

When a priest had just entered the prayer room and closed the door, he called all the priests to stand.

“There is something secretly told to me by a soldier who has been constantly confessing to me.”

The prayer room can only be used for an hour a day, but there were quite a few soldiers who asked for a short confession when they went outside to treat soldiers.
Of course, I couldn’t openly ask for it because I noticed, and I did it secretly.

“What was it about?”
“They say that an all-out war with the Geos Empire will begin soon.
“Wars don’t happen from time to time?”

Since they were born, they had been praying in the temple, so it was difficult to feel hostility right away, no matter how much they pretended to be with the temple.
Think about it.
A daily prayer, a simple pre-meal prayer when eating rice.
Would the soldiers understand it if they weren’t forced to do those things?
However, because of the disgusting behavior of the temple, there was a time when I even noticed that I was praying.
Fortunately, the Emperor of the Empire noticed the seriousness of the situation and quickly drew a line so it didn’t turn into a big deal.
It was not the god the soldiers were praying to that was wrong, but the actions of the temple.
It would be very disrespectful to tie the two together.
The soldiers, who always considered the temple and the god the same, were greatly shocked by the emperor’s words, and on the other hand, thought they were right.
It was the temple that was at fault, not the god.
Temples are not gods, so they can be corrupted and can be insulted.
By insulting them, you are not insulting God.

“Yes, if it was a normal war, I wouldn’t have made a fuss.”
“Is this war different?”
“The war may be over soon.”
“!!!!”
“Bur, is the war over already?”
“Not yet. Do you know when we were trapped here?”
“To me, a day is like a year.”
“You can finally get out of here!”

When the priests heard that the war was over, their faces turned red.

“But what will the result be? After all, Geos will be defeated, right?”
“Of course. After pushing so close to the capital, there is no way we can win now.”
“How the temple is doing… I’m curious, but it’s frustrating because there’s no way to find out.”

It wasn’t that there weren’t new priests coming in.
However, as they were the ones who treated them as instructed, very few people knew detailed information about politics or the war situation.
Even if you ask what kind of situation Geos is, the only answer is ‘I’m doing well because I’ve been treated…’.
Thanks to that, there was no information about the situation of the temple.
So the priests had no choice but to approach the soldiers and start gathering information, saying they would confess.
It was a prickly conscience, but I was able to gather useful information as I began to confess.

‘No matter how good a warrior is, the mind is hard to train.’

In a war where people were dying, mental aftereffects left more aftereffects than deep scars on the body.

“But we can’t force the soldiers who are confessing to us to give out information. Now that we are sharing what we heard at the confessional, this action is a sin worthy of punishment.”
“…Yes, that’s right.”
“…”

Silence fell in her prayer room, where they were constantly talking while whispering to her words.
It was a very strange situation, so she swallowed without realizing it.
She did nothing wrong, just pointed out the right thing, but somehow the atmosphere is bloody.
There was an uncomfortable silence, and then someone cleared their throat and changed the topic.

“Keuheum! Is there any way we can contact the temple?”
“Weren’t we getting paid for our work here?”
“That’s right!”
“But I don’t think it makes sense for the Empire to take our ransom here.”
“You’re right.”
“I think we’ve done enough work to at least pay for our ransom. What have they done for us? A poor prayer room!
“It’s not like this, let’s protest strongly! If they have the guts, they will listen to us!”

The priests came to a conclusion as they sighed.
In fact, it is natural for those held captive to provide labor.
The soldiers of Geos would have been working from morning to evening in a much more dangerous and harsh place than the priests.
However, the work of ordinary POW soldiers was not included in their heads.
They had been thinking about how to make a request for a long time, and they were speechless at a thought that suddenly came to their mind.

“By the way, who delivers this to the emperor?”
“Uh…”
“Ummm…”
“Will the guards listen to our request in the first place?”

When I think of the past, I immediately realize that it will not be easy.

“Well, even when we built a prayer room, if we hadn’t threatened them, they would never have called the superiors.”
“How about another strike?”

First of all, it was important to create a situation where you could have a conversation with the emperor.
However, it was nonsense for the jailer to tell the emperor to come and go.
Of course, the emperor was not the kind of person who would hurry up just because the priests called.

“Well, I don’t think it’s a good way to do it at the end of the war.”
“That’s right. I don’t think it’s good to provoke him.”
“The Geos Empire should have won…”

If the Geos Empire had won, the situation would have been very different.
However, Geos was defeated, and the vicious enemy, the Empire, had a high chance of winning.
The relationship between the temple and the empire was already broken.
What would you do if they said they would kill everyone without receiving compensation?
Touching the emperor is something you have to keep an eye on.

“It takes a while for a method that has already been used once.”
“Then… What should I do?”
“We have to convince the emperor. He will also be burdened with the relationship with the temple after the war.”
“That’s right. It can’t be a burden. Countless people will suffer because of the emperor’s decision!”

The people will not be able to receive treatment even if they are sick, and they will not be able to offer proper worship.

“During the war, I had an accident because my eyes were turned upside down, but I must have felt impatient. We just need to scratch it gently.”
“You’re really clever! If this is the case, even the emperor will have no choice but to pass!”

The priests made a fuss as if they had already succeeded in making a deal with the emperor because they were happy with each other.